Made in Hong Kong

Studies in Popular Music
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-22698-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

Reihe: Routledge Global Popular Music Series

Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first century popular music in Hong Kong. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and it covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Hong Kong. Each essay provides adequate context to allow readers to understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Cantopop, History and Legacy; Genres, Format, and Identity; Significant Artists; and Contemporary Cantopop.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fung, Anthony

Chik, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Weltmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Mainstreaming Hong Kong Popular Music

ANTHONY FUNG & ALICE CHIK



PART I: CANTOPOP, HISTORY, AND LEGACY

- Mapping sociopolitical and cultural changes through "The Daughters of Hong Kong:" From Anita Mui to Denise Ho

VICKY HO & MIRANDA MA

- Once upon a time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984

YIU-WAI CHU



- Pax Musica & Mnets: Cantopop–Kpop convergences and inter-Asia cultural mobilities

KAI KHIUN LIEW & MEICHENG SUN

- Voices shaped by the people and for the people: Cantopop and political crisis from the colonial to postcolonial era

STELLA LAU & IVY MAN



PART II: GENRES, FORMAT, AND IDENTITY

- The symbolism sound of Cantopop: Relistening to "The Fatal Irony" (1974)

TING YIU WONG

- Rethinking Chineseness in the Cantopop of Sam Hui

BRENDA CHAN

- Alternative music, language, and "Hong Kong" identity: The use of metaphor in English lyrics of Hong Kong independent music

LOK MING ERIC CHEUNG

- Covers and "One Melody, Two Lyrics" Songs

JOHNSON LEOW



PART III: SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS



- Love songs from an island with blurred boundaries: Teresa Teng’s anchoring and wandering in Hong Kong

CHEN-CHING CHENG

- Remembering Hong Kong as a queer metaphor: Leslie Cheung’s queer performativity and posthumous networked fandom

HONG-CHI SHIAU

- Hong Kong is (no longer) my home: From Sam Hui to My Little Airport

MILAN ISMANGIL

- MC Yan and his Cantonese conscious rap

ANGEL M. Y. LIN



PART IV: CONTEMPORARY CANTOPOP

- Snapshots of multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music

PHIL BENSON & ALICE CHIK

- Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-catalyzed cross-media stardom in the new millennium

KLAVIER J. WANG & STEPHANIE NG

- Performing the political: Reflections on Tatming meeting George Orwell in 2017

YIU FAI CHOW, JEROEN de KLOET & LEONIE SCHMIDT

- The politicization of music through nostalgic mediation: The memory in "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies"

JESSICA KONG & ANTHONY FUNG



CODA

- The globo-regional and the local in Hong Kong popular music

C. J. W.-L. WEE

Afterword

Cantopop is always hybrid: A conversation with Serina Ha

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Fung is Professor in the School of Journalismand Communication, and Co-Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds an appointment as Professor in the School of Arts and Communication at Beijing Normal University, China.

Alice Chik is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies and a core member of the Faculty of Human Sciences Multilingualism Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.